Lexic.us

Definition of Guardian spirit

1. Noun. An angel believed to have special affection for a particular individual.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Guardian Spirit

Literary usage of Guardian spirit

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1838)
"... as we are counselled to do, by coming up stairs, and my guardian spirit has somewhat softened my trial, by sending me a horrible cold in my head, ..."

2. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1858)
"Have they a guardian spirit over them? 1 have repeatedly observed, when I approached a herd lying beyond an ant-hill with a tree on it, and viewed them with ..."

3. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1906)
"They undertake nothing without first invoking their guardian spirit, ... When they wish to choose their medicine or guardian spirit, they fast for three or ..."

4. Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of by Reuben Gold Thwaites (1906)
"They undertake nothing without first invoking their guardian spirit, ... When they wish to choose their medicine or guardian spirit, they fast for three or ..."

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